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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Jen's Quilt

The quilt patten is from Carol Doak's book, Mariner's Compass Stars. The pattern is the Fire and Ice quilt that is in the book. I modified the quilt slightly by reducing the star featured in the middle and added it to the four corners of the quilt instead of a solid square that the pattern called for. I began making the quilt in a class taught by the queen of paper piecing, Carol Doak herself at the Lowell Quilt Festival in Lowell, MA.

Most of the fabric is Timeless Treasure's Jacobean Arbor line which I've had for a few years now and is hard to find at this point. The rest is mostly Mark Lipinski's Elements line with a few additional blenders added in.

Okay, from now on - I will be sure to get all the details of the quilts I quilt before I post about them, I should have done that already, but sometimes I just get anxious to post then end up having to find out and answer all the questions coming about who's quilt, where to get the pattern, etc....Anyway - Jen's quilt! She did a marvelous job on this quilt and it was so fun to work on. I used So Fine thread from Superior Threads, and this little quilt took me 13 hours to do.

Since I took these pictures at night, I couldn't get the right coloring in all the pictures - but I did some swirls with circle filling for the turquoise fabric - that was very time consuming, but I love the effect it gives the quilt.

This coloring is much better and you can see the awesome effect of the quilting in the green - also time consuming, but worth it. I love it! I just marked the quilt with a disappearing purple marker and I used my 9 inch ruler to do the rest. It worked out so nicely because of how well Jen piece this quilt. It was very straight.

Okay - the back - I love it! I can't tell you how fun it is to take a quilt off. Every time I pull off a new quilt I get a huge rush of satisfaction knowing that "I did that." It really is so fun to quilt!

Hi Judi...I am a hand quilter and I love it...but your long arm quilting makes we yearn for a long arm ..seiously..you are so good at it...the patterns are interesting and so perfect...have to congratulate you....and so young...very nice Judi

Amazing! The detail and perfection of your stitching is truly amazing! After doing only a few quilts on a long arm, I can just imagine the patience and control it takes to get this kind of fine detail. Not to mention all the thread changes! I love the back almost as much as the front! It must feel so cool to run your hands across the top of it too!

That looks so awesome. When you take the quilt off and get to look at the whole thing I bet it gets you excited to do another one. Thank goodness for that because wow it takes you a long time to do a quilt you probably want like a week long break!

Wow! I love when the back is just as good, or even better that the front. I know what you mean by the feeling you get when you take a quilt off the frame. Your quilting is wonderful, and I love seeing what you do next. You have a terrific talent.

Your blog is the first one I look for each day - such beautiful, inspiring work. I usually do my own quilting on my domestic machine, and I'm getting ready to quilt a one inch border. I love the design you used on this one and am trying to figure out how you did it. Did you do each little flower/star completely before moving to the next one? Did you mark the spacing? I'd love to know how you did it if you don't mind sharing!

This quilt is inspiring! The top is beautiful and I can't begin to express how the fab the quilting is! I would drive the six hours I live away from you just to have one quilt top look this fantastic. Keep it up and I will!!!

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I am Judi the Green Fairy of Green Fairy Quilts. Strange name you may think, but it is a fun story of when I was young and my mom would comment before she left anywhere that it would be nice if the Green Fairy cleaned up while she was gone. I usually took the hint and cleaned up. So, when we started to think of a name for our business, naturally Green Fairy Quilts was it. I love to quilt and love to design, so together with my husband Clint we have turned my passion into a business. Clint now runs the business while I get to spend my time taking care of our four children and making time to longarm quilt and design quilt patterns. Thanks for stopping by!